The statement of organization, filed by a recipient committee calling itself "Robert Brewer for District Attorney 2014" and bearing Brewer's signature, is dated March 28. The committee's treasurer is listed as Nancy Haley, political finance director for Scott & Cronin LLP of Encinitas, an accounting firm that specializes in campaign work.

Taylor turned up as the judge in the case brought this year by San Diego hotel moguls against Filner in an attempt to get the mayor to sign off on a funding deal arranged by previous GOP mayor Jerry Sanders. The judge subsequently denied knowing Gleason and other signatories to his petition, including city councilman Todd Gloria, who also had an interest in the case against the mayor.

According to online records of the California Bar Association, Robert S. Brewer, Jr., was admitted to practice in California in 1975 and currently works at the firm Jones Day. He is a USD law school graduate.

In August 2007 the San Diego Union Tribune reported that Brewer might challenge then incumbent Democratic city attorney Michael Aguirre. Ultimately, Goldsmith took on Aguirre and beat him.

According to his Jones Day biography, Brewer, a onetime prosecutor, is familiar with the long history of corruption on San Diego's bench and elsewhere in government:

Bob has represented several San Diego Superior Court judges who have been the focus of investigations, including Michael Greer, who was indicted for bribery in 1996. In 1989 Bob was co-counsel for ex-mayor of Del Mar, California, Nancy Hoover, in a nine-month federal securities fraud trial.

Upon further reflection, this may be a total "put up job." By that I mean, she gets an opponent who is so odious that people will flock to her as a clean candidate. Once his record is out there for everyone to see, who would find him preferable to Bahnee, even with all her warts? No, unless Aguirre runs against her, we'll see her take over and become DA for life.

I predicted at the time of Dumanis's ill-fated venture into mayoral politics, that she would suffer by having a "loser" designation now applied to her. And it most certainly has come to pass with this strong candidate appearing to challenge her. I don't feel that he is "odious" at all and looking at Brewer's resume, it seems mightily impressive. Let's hope he can rear up and wave the garlic cloves and wooden stake to repel Dumanis away from her blood-sucking lair on the 13th floor at the "Hell of Justice."